
Golda’s War Diaries explores the secrets revealed in newly declassified files concerning Prime Minister Golda Meir’s time in office, and particularly her handling of the Yom Kippur War. The result is an intimate portrait of a leader in crisis yet very much in charge.
Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish protective documents, opening protected safe houses, and more. The big mystery of what happened to Wallenberg following his arrest in 1945 by the Soviet liberators of Hungary is at the center of the film.
The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life. (more…)